http://www.lbmethod.org/palabos/ This is an RSS feed for the Palabos project. With RSS feeds, you can stay up to date with the latest news and developments of the project. To use it, you will need a News Reader, a plugin for your Web Browser, or other similar device. You can subscribe to a RSS feed in a number of ways. For example, you can drag the URL of the RSS feed into your News Reader, or you can cut and paste the URL of the RSS feed into your News Reader. http://www.lbmethod.org/palabos/ http://lbmethod.org/plb_wiki:log_v0.6_r2 February 12, 2010 -- This is a quick bug fix for the following problem: a linker error sometimes occurred with Palabos end-user programs distributed over multiple source (.cpp) files. http://lbmethod.org/plb_wiki:log_v0.6_r1 January 4, 2010 -- Additionally to a few important bug fixes, this new releases presents Palabos with a revised, more general data structure, in which data processors can be used to couple block-lattices with different data types. Moreover, two new force terms were added, and an interface for reading XML input data. http://lbmethod.org/plb_wiki:log_v0.6_r0 August 1, 2009 -- After a whole year of development, the first release of Palabos is out, a successor of the OpenLB code [Note: this new project was initially called "xFlows", but subsequently renamed to Palabos due to a trademark conflict]. About a year ago, we started refactoring the structure of Palabos in order to get a more solid and, especially, more extensible kernel. As time went on, we ended up simply re-writing everything from scratch. This is the frustrating part of code development -- the more time you invest in programming, and the more you realize that you could have made better choices in the beginning. While the new code fixes many of the issues of OpenLB at the internal level, it has also undergone a few important modifications in the user interface. For this reason, it is published under a new project name, to keep a clear distinction between the OpenLB branch and the Palabos branch. Note that if you have developed a lot of code with OpenLB, you won't need to switch to Palabos right away -- the OpenLB branch is going to maintained as a parallel branch, at least for a while, with bug fixes and a few code improvements. The most notable improvements provided in Palabos are: (1) A user's guide which actually covers the important aspects of the code. (2) A new data structure (called the "data processor" in Palabos), which consistently handles collective operations on block-lattices and on scalar- or vector-fields, couplings between these objects, reduction operations and more. The purpose is to offer a neat interface for user's to extend Palabos with new LB models. (3) More physics (non-Newtonian models, Smagorinsky model for large eddy simulations, and more) (4) Support for compilation under Windows, based on the IDE Code::Blocks. (5) Interface to the library CVMLCPP, which offers the possibility to read a geometry from an STL file, voxelize the domain, and run a simulation